How to reach me

I gave up the contact form. Try the following.


By e-mail (preferred)
  • You could find my current email address in any research paper, but it is my
    last name and ist.hokudai.ac.jp with the at mark between.
  • My kabura@media address is not active anymore.
  • You can also contact me via social networks but I am not using them regularly.
  • You can write in Japanese (日本語でもやり取りが可能です).
By Post
  • English:
    Language Media Laboratory
    Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Room 7-14
    Hokkaido University,
    ​Kita-ku, Kita 14, Nishi 9, 060-0814, Sapporo, Japan
  • Japanese:
    〒060-0814 札幌市北区北14条西9丁目
    北海道大学 情報科学研究院 言語メディア学研究室
    情報科学研究院棟7-14室
By Phone
  • If you need to call me (emergency?), 011-706-6535 is the number of the phone on my desk.
  • Add +81 to 11-706-6535 if you are calling from outside Japan.
Before You Write
  • If you are asking for my supervision, convince me you know what I am doing, explain what you have done by far and how you see combining your skills with mine could change the world.
  • If you are asking for a collaboration, explain what you you think we could exchange.
  • If you are asking for a job, that's not how it's being done, at least not in Japan.
Finding me on campus
  • I am usually at room 7-14, seventh floor of the Information Science and Technology Bldg.
  • My office door is usually open when I am available, closed when I am busy or having a meeting.
  • During seminars (Mondays and Wednesday 14:45-16:15) I am at 7-15 seminar room.
  • Google map is here and below.
  • Access details with pictures are here, but in Japanese only.